Yep, my Nexus 4 was not fit for use. It barely worked, and actually did stop working after six months. I'm very hesitant to buy another Nexus phone. Though the Nexus 4 was made by LG, I found other LG phones aren't that bad. The G4 was a pleasure to use until the CPU died--I'm told the CPU dies on nearly all LG G4 handsets.
My conclusion from this admittedly small sample size: there is little Q/A on Nexus phones, and their design and build quality compares poorly to a phone whose production is entirely controlled by an established manufacturer.
I don't think you understand how profitable Android is. It's all about the ads and in-app purchases. The issue I see here is that they're now trying to make a profit at both ends, hurting consumers in the process.
I'm not misunderstanding the information theory, but I may be misunderstanding the electrical/mechanical context. Does audio equipment use off-the-shelf microchips that are 32-bits, or does every extra bit require more circuitry? I was assuming this stuff is based on computer chips and thus 32 bits is natural--I was just arguing that it's harmless.
Because if your composite data is some infinite-precision data (signal) plus some low-magnitude data, clipping the data does not preferentially remove the noise. It simply changes the low bits to 0, which may or may not agree with the signal. Mostly what got me about your post was the idea that these extra bits are like adding a RNG to the signal. Well, that's true, but so is deleting them.
If making a 32-bit system is harder and more expensive than making a lower-bit system, then I'm fully with you. Either way, charging more for such a system is predatory.
32bit systems are a joke. None of them have low enough noise. For high end systems the first 20 bits might be useful information , if you're lucky. After that the rest of thr bits are noise, and are, from a physics standpoint, hooked up to a gaussian random number generator.
Are you sure about that? If you use a 20 bit system, you're clipping the noise bits to "0", which won't necessarily be more accurate than letting them remain at their original value. Those bits don't go away--the system still deals with digital values, you've just limited it to fewer possible digital values. This is rounding, and I don't see why rounding away the noise is any more likely to round it in the right direction than wrong.
It also tends to be useless (not offered) for half of the items I'm interested in, but the "free" claim is the real manipulative crap. (IIRC they list the price in the same sentence--free for $99--probably at the behest of their lawyers.)
I wish you (and Amazon) would stop calling it free. It's not free, it's flat-rate. That rate is $99/year, equal to the price of quite a few orders of 2-day shipping.
At this point why wouldn't they just buy whatever the latest galaxy phone is instead? If you're going to be stuck with a phone full of bloat you might as well at least get a good one?
Bad buttons. If they want me to press and hold stiff hardware buttons before they take action after a 800 ms delay, they should pay me for that job. I'd use any phone before Samsung, possibly even an iPhone.
I've got high standards and a big mouth. Is there any way I could participate in focus groups or alpha-testing to tell companies what's wrong with their devices before they launch? I've had most of the flagship phones (one from each manufacturer) and while I love them, I've had serious complaints about each. I don't know who they have doing the testing!
Are there testing programs I could apply to join? I'm not interested in a full time job, but I'm a heavy user and find multiple problems per week when I have a new phone.
This situation is uglier and scarier than I would have believed. To summarize, Jacob is being persecuted for something he didn't do, by someone that wasn't involved.
And they've just given themselves a big shot in the foot. Jacob now has recourse to say "If these were true, why were the police never notified AS REQUIRED BY LAW?"
It doesn't work that way. You can't use someone else's criminal misconduct in your own defense. It's just not part of the picture. It would only help to make the opposition look slightly less credible.
What is "sexual mistreatment"? I can't find any info in the article, or the link within that was purported to contain more information.
Given that this kind of accusation can permanently prevent someone from finding work in their field, I find these articles--lacking details, with no formal legal proceedings--troubling.
Your post is a fantastic example. Your writing is not illegal, but if it ever became publicly tied to you, you'd never be able to find a decent job again.
You've got it backwards. Everyone's trying to fuck you everywhere, but in the US you have recourse.
My non-US apartment building wakes me every morning with hammering and drilling. What can I do about it? Fuck all. In the US, I could complain to the landlord, make some recordings, reduce my rent payments, wait for the landlord to sue me, and smile as the judge tells him I'll resume paying full rent when he stops the fucking noise.
(I'm sure it's not actually as peachy as that, but the fact still that I have no recourse at all in my current country.)
My Nexus 4 was the worst phone I've ever had. The phone ran blisteringly hot and was so poorly sealed that it corroded its own power button due to sweat and humidity. 3G would stop working for 30 seconds at a time. It perfectly covered up its own speaker when sitting on a flat surface, so sounds were muted. It was smooth enough to slip off of nearly any surface.
Now the same company that was in charge of the specifications wants to be in charge of everything? Shoot me now!
Clever troll. To say nothing of the rest of your post, it's not your right to judge whether the people who were formerly part of the food economy deserve to be poor (unable to afford housing, medical care, etc.).
The US is more of a threat to the rest of the world than the middle east.
That's only true because we're keeping the Middle East in check. If the war-loving factions in the Middle East were as competent as the US, the world would be fucked. (That's not to say the US isn't also somewhat war-loving. But the huge redeeming quality is that the US appreciates stability on a global scale.)
Thanks! I'll check out what Lenovo's flagship phones are next time I want to upgrade. (They seem to occupy the right spot, as a company that's big enough to do things right, but small enough that it can't just ignore what its customers want.)
Unlike Google, who couldn't seem to afford a QA department for their phones.
Ever since I read about Gawker taking a quote out of context and basically destroying someone's life, it's hard for me to feel sorry for them.
Since when the whole story came to light, Gawker didn't do the responsible thing and discipline Biddle, I conclude they didn't learn anything about responsible journalism. News flash: creating news is explicitly not part of a reporter's job.
The Nexuses are the closest you will get. The hardware seems to be good these days and they are certainly not bootloader locked. I have a Lenovo for travel that's got all the ports and dual SIM. That was unlockable in the sense that all it took was a google search.
It's a bit immature, but I have a grudge against Google for the Nexus 4. On top of all its design shortcomings, mine had a slightly defective motherboard. I think it must have been "binned" bad but they sold it anyway.
You mean the Lenovo has a SSD slot? I think you've just helped me choose my next phone. Is there any reason one might not want to choose Lenovo? Any way it fails to impress?
So vote with your wallet and only buy phones with unlocked bootloaders.. On the upside, they are usually cheaper and come with nice options like dual sim.
It's a rotten choice. There's no phone with great hardware AND an unlocked bootloader. (Great hardware means pluggable SD card and battery, and camera and other hardware that doesn't randomly screw up or stop working.)
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Yep, my Nexus 4 was not fit for use. It barely worked, and actually did stop working after six months. I'm very hesitant to buy another Nexus phone. Though the Nexus 4 was made by LG, I found other LG phones aren't that bad. The G4 was a pleasure to use until the CPU died--I'm told the CPU dies on nearly all LG G4 handsets.
My conclusion from this admittedly small sample size: there is little Q/A on Nexus phones, and their design and build quality compares poorly to a phone whose production is entirely controlled by an established manufacturer.
I don't think you understand how profitable Android is. It's all about the ads and in-app purchases. The issue I see here is that they're now trying to make a profit at both ends, hurting consumers in the process.
Thanks for clearing that up!
I'm not misunderstanding the information theory, but I may be misunderstanding the electrical/mechanical context. Does audio equipment use off-the-shelf microchips that are 32-bits, or does every extra bit require more circuitry? I was assuming this stuff is based on computer chips and thus 32 bits is natural--I was just arguing that it's harmless.
Because if your composite data is some infinite-precision data (signal) plus some low-magnitude data, clipping the data does not preferentially remove the noise. It simply changes the low bits to 0, which may or may not agree with the signal. Mostly what got me about your post was the idea that these extra bits are like adding a RNG to the signal. Well, that's true, but so is deleting them.
If making a 32-bit system is harder and more expensive than making a lower-bit system, then I'm fully with you. Either way, charging more for such a system is predatory.
32bit systems are a joke. None of them have low enough noise. For high end systems the first 20 bits might be useful information , if you're lucky. After that the rest of thr bits are noise, and are, from a physics standpoint, hooked up to a gaussian random number generator.
Are you sure about that? If you use a 20 bit system, you're clipping the noise bits to "0", which won't necessarily be more accurate than letting them remain at their original value. Those bits don't go away--the system still deals with digital values, you've just limited it to fewer possible digital values. This is rounding, and I don't see why rounding away the noise is any more likely to round it in the right direction than wrong.
It also tends to be useless (not offered) for half of the items I'm interested in, but the "free" claim is the real manipulative crap. (IIRC they list the price in the same sentence--free for $99--probably at the behest of their lawyers.)
I wish you (and Amazon) would stop calling it free. It's not free, it's flat-rate. That rate is $99/year, equal to the price of quite a few orders of 2-day shipping.
At this point why wouldn't they just buy whatever the latest galaxy phone is instead? If you're going to be stuck with a phone full of bloat you might as well at least get a good one?
Bad buttons. If they want me to press and hold stiff hardware buttons before they take action after a 800 ms delay, they should pay me for that job. I'd use any phone before Samsung, possibly even an iPhone.
It's a jig. It holds things in place, like a glorified clamp. It may be big, but it's not very interesting.
I've got high standards and a big mouth. Is there any way I could participate in focus groups or alpha-testing to tell companies what's wrong with their devices before they launch? I've had most of the flagship phones (one from each manufacturer) and while I love them, I've had serious complaints about each. I don't know who they have doing the testing!
Are there testing programs I could apply to join? I'm not interested in a full time job, but I'm a heavy user and find multiple problems per week when I have a new phone.
I have Fridays off every week and I drive to my local ISP, PUD, and bank to pay mortgage.
That's a pretty high price to pay for what is essentially insurance.
This situation is uglier and scarier than I would have believed. To summarize, Jacob is being persecuted for something he didn't do, by someone that wasn't involved.
And they've just given themselves a big shot in the foot. Jacob now has recourse to say "If these were true, why were the police never notified AS REQUIRED BY LAW?"
It doesn't work that way. You can't use someone else's criminal misconduct in your own defense. It's just not part of the picture. It would only help to make the opposition look slightly less credible.
What is "sexual mistreatment"? I can't find any info in the article, or the link within that was purported to contain more information.
Given that this kind of accusation can permanently prevent someone from finding work in their field, I find these articles--lacking details, with no formal legal proceedings--troubling.
Your post is a fantastic example. Your writing is not illegal, but if it ever became publicly tied to you, you'd never be able to find a decent job again.
It's not cross platform in any meaningful way.
If you're on Android, Keepass2Android is fantastic. More secure and a better UI than the other Keepass app I tried.
You've got it backwards. Everyone's trying to fuck you everywhere, but in the US you have recourse.
My non-US apartment building wakes me every morning with hammering and drilling. What can I do about it? Fuck all. In the US, I could complain to the landlord, make some recordings, reduce my rent payments, wait for the landlord to sue me, and smile as the judge tells him I'll resume paying full rent when he stops the fucking noise.
(I'm sure it's not actually as peachy as that, but the fact still that I have no recourse at all in my current country.)
My Nexus 4 was the worst phone I've ever had. The phone ran blisteringly hot and was so poorly sealed that it corroded its own power button due to sweat and humidity. 3G would stop working for 30 seconds at a time. It perfectly covered up its own speaker when sitting on a flat surface, so sounds were muted. It was smooth enough to slip off of nearly any surface.
Now the same company that was in charge of the specifications wants to be in charge of everything? Shoot me now!
Clever troll. To say nothing of the rest of your post, it's not your right to judge whether the people who were formerly part of the food economy deserve to be poor (unable to afford housing, medical care, etc.).
The US is more of a threat to the rest of the world than the middle east.
That's only true because we're keeping the Middle East in check. If the war-loving factions in the Middle East were as competent as the US, the world would be fucked. (That's not to say the US isn't also somewhat war-loving. But the huge redeeming quality is that the US appreciates stability on a global scale.)
Thanks! I'll check out what Lenovo's flagship phones are next time I want to upgrade. (They seem to occupy the right spot, as a company that's big enough to do things right, but small enough that it can't just ignore what its customers want.)
Unlike Google, who couldn't seem to afford a QA department for their phones.
Ever since I read about Gawker taking a quote out of context and basically destroying someone's life, it's hard for me to feel sorry for them.
Since when the whole story came to light, Gawker didn't do the responsible thing and discipline Biddle, I conclude they didn't learn anything about responsible journalism. News flash: creating news is explicitly not part of a reporter's job.
The Nexuses are the closest you will get. The hardware seems to be good these days and they are certainly not bootloader locked. I have a Lenovo for travel that's got all the ports and dual SIM. That was unlockable in the sense that all it took was a google search.
It's a bit immature, but I have a grudge against Google for the Nexus 4. On top of all its design shortcomings, mine had a slightly defective motherboard. I think it must have been "binned" bad but they sold it anyway.
You mean the Lenovo has a SSD slot? I think you've just helped me choose my next phone. Is there any reason one might not want to choose Lenovo? Any way it fails to impress?
So vote with your wallet and only buy phones with unlocked bootloaders.. On the upside, they are usually cheaper and come with nice options like dual sim.
It's a rotten choice. There's no phone with great hardware AND an unlocked bootloader. (Great hardware means pluggable SD card and battery, and camera and other hardware that doesn't randomly screw up or stop working.)
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